Home Burial Comments

My favorite poems are the narratives. the Witch of Coos, the Death of a Hired Man and of course Home Burial. The combination of the emotion, the narrative and poesy make tears come to my eyes.

This is a masterpiece of storytelling- he had me feeling the pain in his heart and then when she spoke of his words and actions after burying his child- I could understand her grief- she had no one to share it with... and perhaps he didn't have anyone either. Breathtaking how much nuance Frost got across in such a few verses when you consider how much he conveyed. Wow!

Robert Frost was a master storyteller with creative narration of scenes.

great pathetic scenery /// Where will you go? No, I can not allow you! Stay here in this socket of heart it's your home it will make for you a last breath! ..........

Such a sad poem by Robert Frost👍👍👍

Emotion and grief / pain fill the readers' hearts of this poem Home Burial, a touching poem indeed,

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Loss of the living and the dead.

Grief, & other strong emotions, are expressed differently by men & women. A woman says what has happened & how she feels. A man can't stand to reveal his vulnerability. Saying how quickly a post can rot is his way of saying how vulnerable he is to the loss of his baby. His wife asks what a rotten post has to do with his dead baby in the dark parlor. EVERYTHING! The baby will soon rot in the ground. The mere use of the word rot tells us he is haunted by the loss, but she thinks he doesn't care. The lesson here is for a man to speak explicitly, not to just anyone, but to his wife- to trust her. The lesson here for a woman is to believe her husband when he says he cares- to trust him. Yes, this makes them vulnerable- that is what marriage is about.

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This poem is one of the best treatises I have seen on the difference between how men and women grieve. Digging the grave and trying to get back to daily duty is one way men grieve. The woman is a wife but also a mother and her anger is not yet healed if it ever will be. The husband is saying they must move on and the wife is saying she can't. The tragedy is that the husband must absorb the anger of his wife as often does happen even in lesser circumstances.

What a sad story. It seems a short story rather than a poem. It is made more poignant by the fact that the Frosts lost infant children.

Three foggy mornings and one rainy day will rot the best birch fence a man can build. I don't think the wife realizes the signifigance of the statement and the emotional trauma that the man had to go through, burying his own son, and trying to convince himself that... it's meant to be. A very sad poem.

This poem is Dramatic lyric with smooth language and gentle tone.This poem is extremely emotional in its medium.Basically this is a poem about a couple whose first born baby has died.The husband has accepted the tragic death but the wife is not able to take up her life again.This poem shows their is grevious loss of communication between this couple and sad shadows of their dead child alienates them more from each other. The husband threw himself into the most difficult task of digging the grave of his only child but wife thinks that he has been so unemotional while doing such an act of digging the grave of his only child and putting him into the grave. By Hira Ali, Department of English. Pakistan.